A Private Cosmos

by Philip José Farmer

1968World of tiers (imaginary place), fictionFiction, science fiction, generalScience fiction

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World of tiers (imaginary place), fictionFiction, science fiction, generalScience fiction

First published 1968

About the author

Philip José Farmer

26 January 1918 – 25 February 2009

**Philip José Farmer** was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novel — especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for — and reworking of — the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Philip José Farmer is also well known for remixing classic fictional characters, worlds, and both real and fake authors. This is epitomized with his Wold Newton family group of books th…

Author

Philip José Farmer

First published

1968

Pages

275

Read time

≈ 7h

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Language

English

Publisher

Ace Books

ISBN

9780575119611

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